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There have always been problems about our comprehension of the collection of all real numbers. Things became clearer by 1900 when the logicists had succeeded in the project of defining the reals in purely set-theoretical terms. Let us briefly summarise the approach that has now become traditional.
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Conway, J. H.: 1976, On Numbers and Games, Academic Press, New York.
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Conway, J.H. (1994). The Surreals and the Reals. In: Ehrlich, P. (eds) Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, and Theories of Continua. Synthese Library, vol 242. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8248-3_3
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